tianDecompose {SEMID}

Performs the tian decomposition on the mixed graph

Description

Uses the Tian decomposition to break the mixed graph into c-components. These c-components are slightly different than those from Tian (2005) in that if they graph is not acyclic the bidirected components are combined whenever they are connected by a directed loop.

Usage

tianDecompose(this)

## S3 method for class 'MixedGraph'
tianDecompose(this)

Arguments

this

the mixed graph object

References

Jin Tian. 2005. Identifying direct causal effects in linear models. In Proceedings of the 20th national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1 (AAAI'05), Anthony Cohn (Ed.), Vol. 1. AAAI Press 346-352.